WCW Breaking News 8/21/14

by Daniel Johnson

*More and more details keep coming out about Bill Goldberg’s displeasure with WCW, but nevertheless he continues to work for them. Eric Bischoff can be thanked/blamed (depending how you look at it) for Goldberg staying with the promotion. Originally it looked very unlikely that Goldberg would wrestle at WCW Bash at the Beach 2014. The day of that show Bischoff acting in his new role as assistant to the executive producer was pushed by WCW brass into making a last ditch attempt to retain Goldberg and get him to work the pay-per-view. Goldberg responded well to Bischoff because of the history between the two and more importantly the additional $500,000 Goldberg will now get after his contract revision. With no opponent scheduled for Goldberg, Chuck Palumbo was hastily put into a title bout with Goldberg allotted 10 minutes and with no previous planning.

*Chuck Palumbo is out with a fractured skull after taking a bad mule kick from Bill Goldberg. Doctors don’t expect him to be cleared for competition until late 2015 at the earliest.

*Comedy stables are still all the talk at WCW booking committee meetings. The idea for a faction based on the long dead Wrestling Society X (WSX), which aired on MTV in 2007 may finally be coming to pass, but in a highly mutated way. Apparently someone pointed out how bad the idea was to revive something that has been irrelevant for ages and most people never cared that much about to begin with. At that point Kevin Sullivan’s ears perked up and Sullivan laid out his own plan for the stable. The group will now be called simply WSX and feature old school spooky elements with no references to the former MTV program. Sullivan has volunteered himself to be the group’s onscreen mentor. WCW Magazine would probably hype this if it the publication still printed. Well, at least WWE Magazine will soon join it in kayfabe dirt sheet heaven.

Disclaimer: Unless you’re still recovering from Kronik’s high times or got ran off the road by The Outsiders you should know that none of this actually happened. The real WCW was purchased in 2001 by the company that would become WWE.